Thursday, 26 May 2016

If you bookmark that URL and follow www.dansmediadigest.co.uk/feed/ if you use a RSS feed reader, you'll never again have to worry about losing track of my blog. Incidentally, I really hope everyone reading this... well, isn't reading this! You should have followed me to the new blog by now! There's been lots of good content there since I moved DMD away from the increasingly tired Blogger platform, including my annual pick of the most promising US TV Pilots for 2016/17.

Friday, 22 April 2016

Sorry it's such a long piece (maybe a bit indulgent of me), but I wanted to cover all the bases and make it very clear why this is a fantastic development and opportunity. Also, if you're not even aware of Medium.com, hopefully I can get you equally as excited about DMD 'moving house' there.

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

It's a little miracle that Better Call Saul can deliver such a fantastic season finale, without the need for anything particularly earth-shattering to happen. Events just allowed to unfold in a very plausible way, and we're now so invested in the core relationships that the tiniest of things can cause a great deal of tension, heartache, and sorrow. Continue reading...

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

My review of the penultimate BETTER CALL SAUL for season 2, "Nailed", is now up for reading at Frame Rated.

Given the title "Nailed", you’d be forgiven for thinking the big climax of Better Call Saul's penultimate hour would involve an exciting set-piece where Mike (Jonathan Banks) uses his homemade 'spike strip' on one of Hector Salamanca's drug-carrying trucks. Instead, it came down to Chuck (Michael McKean) simply arguing with an employee of a xerox shop, and was all the better for it. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the genius of a character-based series like Better Call Saul. Continue reading...

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

I'm experimenting with the Medium platform, and yesterday published an article called 'In the wake of BATMAN v SUPERMAN, can the DC Extended Universe still succeed?' I hope you'll give it a read, and perhaps even give some feedback on the test-version of DMD over there. Click here!

Monday, 11 April 2016

I recently binged the second season of the Netflix/Marvel series DAREDEVIL, and you can read my thoughts over on Frame Rated.

It's fair to say Netflix's Daredevil was one of 2015's biggest surprises, because it did something fresh with a superhero indebted to Batman, in a show with conceptual similarities to The CW's Arrow, while overcoming a negative perception of Daredevil thanks to a misfiring 2003 movie. In going darker and meaner than everything else in Marvel's Cinematic Universe, Daredevil offered something for the slightly older crowd who crave deeper emotional stakes, narrative complexity, and mature content. Continue reading...